Chambers County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Reuben Stepp, Chambers County, Texas, 1867
Reuben Stepp registered to vote in Chambers County on August 6, 1867. He reported Kentucky as his birthplace and 15 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Emancipation in 1863 in Texas" beside his name.
- Kentucky
- Birthplace
- 15 years
- In Texas
- about 1852
- Reached Texas
- 14 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1852 to 1870
1852186018621864186618681870
Elsewhere in Texas
In Chambers County
Reuben Stepp
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Reuben Stepp
- Place of birth
- Kentucky
- County of registration
- Chambers County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- August 6, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 15 years
- Years in Chambers County
- 6 months
- Years in the precinct
- 6 months
- Years in Texas before Chambers County
- 14 years
- Naturalized, how
- "Emancipation"
- Naturalized, when
- "1863"
- Naturalized, where
- "Texas"
- Signature, as written
- "Reuben Gidd"
- Remarks, as written
- "Emancipation in 1863 in Texas"
Elsewhere in Texas
14 yearsReuben Stepp reported 14 years more in Texas than in Chambers County.
Sources
This entry comes from the 1867 to 1870 Texas voter registration, the Texas Secretary of State registration lists held by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission. It sits on page 1 of the Chambers County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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